Pete Schulte's PARDON UP HERE exhibition will be on view at the Luise Ross Gallery through January 12, 2013 (closed December 23-Jan 1). The opening celebration will be held on Thursday, December 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 511 West 25 Street #307, New York, NY.

Pete Schulte’s nuanced pencil and pigment drawings on paper have a presence that belies their small scale. Ideas and images are explored with the artist’s unique touch, sensitivity of line and unpredictable composition. They hover at the threshold between presence and void, image and object, longing and loss. The resulting work seduces and repels, illuminates even as it obscures and operates in the visual space where language fails.

This is Schulte's first one-man exhibition at Luise Ross Gallery. He is an Assistant Professor in The Department of Art & Art History at The University of Alabama.